The crippled Don of Chicago demanded a bride from the Kovalenko family.
To secure a vital business alliance, my parents decided I would be the sacrifice, as they couldn't bear to send their precious adopted daughter, Sophia.
In my past life, I refused and fled. Sophia was forced to marry him instead.
Her subsequent affair and suicide brought disgrace upon our family and utterly destroyed our business.
I begged my fiancé, Marcus, to save us, but he only sneered:
“I spent a fortune to bring you all down. If you hadn't forced Sophia to marry that cripple, she wouldn't be dead!”
He threw me to his enemies himself, watching as I was tortured to death.
Only then did I realize: in everyone's heart, there was only Sophia.
Reborn, I volunteered to marry into the Chicago family.
But when I wore the matriarch's crown and stood at the pinnacle of power, they were all driven mad with regret...